Joanna Harries

Last chance to catch mine and the brilliant @annatilbrook's recital of Italian song on the @opera.rara YouTube channel!

Songs by Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti - it's free to watch until the end of today.

📺 Watch here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyY6...

SongPath is heading to the North East next summer for an uplifting and interactive afternoon of song in Durham's glorious Botanic Gardens, from the woodland garden to the wildflower meadow!

🌳 Sunday 21 June
🌻 1:30pm
🌷 Durham Botanic Garden
with Durham University MUSICON

www.songpath.co.uk

YouTube video by OperaRaraOfficial Joanna Harries & Anna Tilbrook Salon Concert | Rossini, Bellini, Carolina Uccelli and Donizetti

Also a reminder 📢 today that our Salon Series concert stream feat. @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook will be leaving our YouTube channel tomorrow evening ‼️

They present rare Italian songs by Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini & Uccelli. Catch it before it leaves: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyY6...

Carolina Uccelli (1810-1885) was only 20 when her oratorio Saul was premiered in her native Florence. Pianist, composer & educator, she encouraged many young female musicians to pursue their passion for the arts.

This is an excerpt from Il rimprovero sung by @joannaharries.bsky.social

A reminder today that all our programmes since 2021 are available our issuu account including for our @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook Salon Series recital which you can watch until the end of the month on our YouTube channel.

Explore it and more here: issuu.com/operarara

Since posting about my album my social media is now mostly this, and I'm not mad about it.

My favourite is skärgårdssill 🐟

(PS "Letters from Scandinavia" is available via all decent music purveyors 🤓)

"Vivid storytelling...meticulously researched and brilliantly executed"

What a lovely surprise to hear myself on Radio 3! Thanks to Hannah French for featuring Letters from Scandinavia on Record Review & describing me as a "fervent evangelist for Scandinavian song"🥰

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thank you!

It's today! Album release day is here for Letters from Scandinavia 💿🎉

You can listen on all the music places including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and Amazon Music etc. You can also order a beautiful, shiny CD, or buy a download of the album!

www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia

Exciting delivery today! Physical CD copies of "Letters from Scandinavia" arrive ahead of the full album release this Friday 5 September! 🎉💿

You can also hear me & @sholto.kynoch performing it live at @oxfordsong.bsky.social on 10 Oct

www.joannaharries.com/letters-from-scandinavia

Did you tune into our YouTube stream yesterday? If not, fear not! Our @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook Salon Series recital will be up for one month so you can keep returning to hear their beautiful selection of Italian songs.

This is from the first of Bellini's Tre Ariette 🎶

302,539 steps over the past 5 days, walking the first half of the beautiful Coast to Coast path from St Bees to Kirkby Stephen through the Lake District & the Dales! 🥾

Approx 150km including Wainwrights Red Pike, High Stile, High Crag, Haystacks, Calf Crag, Gibson Knott, Helm Crag & Kidsty Pike 🏞️

A reminder today to sign up to receive an alert for this Sunday's YouTube stream from 4pm BST/5pm CET.

We present @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook in rare Italian songs as part of our Salon Series for emerging artists.

More info here: opera-rara.com/event/youtub...htt

Happy Friday news from Opera Rara! Our final stream of the summer will go out next Sunday 31 August for one month. We present @joannaharries.bsky.social and Anna Tilbrook in an Italian song recital recorded in London in May...

Starting with Rossini's 'La regata veneziana': ow.ly/Z6lR50WK5YP

Join SongPath this autumn for an uplifting morning of song in the tranquil setting of Stanmer Park in Brighton 🌳🍂

With special guests Adrian Butterfield (violin) & Angela Hicks (soprano) 🎵

🌳 Sat 18 Oct
🪵 11am-1pm
🍄 Stanmer Park
🎵 £10
Brighton Early Music Festival

www.bremf.org.uk/event/songpa...

Congratulating myself because I actually did a 'strength' workout 💪🏋️‍♀️ Normally I just run.

Suggested routines welcome! Especially something simple doable at home for general health...Googling produces lots that are trying to sculpt a "bubble butt" - but I need no help with the size of my arse 😂

Diolch Martin! ☺️

A song of heartbreak and revenge from the forests of Finland...🌲

Sibelius's "Kaiutar" from "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist @sholto.kynoch

🎧Listen now on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube etc

💿Pre-order the album (out 5 Sep on @crdrecordsclassical)
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

...and more autumn dates:

🌳18 Oct
SongPath
Brighton Early Music Festival

🎭5 Dec
PUCCINI La Rondine (Suzy / Lolette)
Barbican Concert Hall
Opera Rara & BBCSO

Plus a new sound installation "Sonic Threads" for historic North Wing at St Bart's Hospital with Ensemble Augelletti

www.joannaharries.com

A few autumn dates...

🎼31 Aug
Opera Rara Salon Series: Italian Song recital
(Stream of our recital from May)

💿5 Sep
ALBUM RELEASE: Letters from Scandinavia
CRD Records

🎵10 Oct
Letters from Scandinavia
Oxford International Song Festival

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Welcome to our July newsletter - the one where we celebrate our 55th birthday and look ahead to the launch of our 55th season starting in September with two Donizetti Song volume releases - French and Italian songs - from Ermonela Jaho and Carlo Rizzi (pictured).

Read here: ow.ly/O0hY50WpMsl

Look out for the stream of mine & Anna Tilbrook's Italian song recital later this summer. Recorded back in May, feat. Rossini, Bellini, Uccelli & Donizetti

📺 31st August, 4pm on the @operarara.bsky.social YouTube channel

Read the Opera Rara newsletter here: ow.ly/O0hY50WpMsl

How much tea is too much tea...? (Asking for a friend)

Obscenely delighted with new glass jars for my ever expanding loose-leaf collection ☕🫖

If you're dreaming of being by the sea in this weather, I've a song for you (about dreaming by the sea)🌊🐟🦀🐚🦐⛵

🎧 Listen to "Sildig" by Agathe Backer Grøndahl, the latest single from my album "Letters from Scandinavia" with pianist Sholto Kynoch

💿 Pre-order album:
www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

So looking forward to kicking off the Oxford International Song Festival in the autumn with "Letters from Scandinavia" with the wonderful Sholto Kynoch (also celebrating our album, out on 5 Sep) 🎵🎉

Fri 10 October
1pm
Holywell Music Room, Oxford

oxfordsong.org/events/lette...

Before & After.

Pre- and post- Beethoven Missa Solemnis at the @bristolbeacon.bsky.social with @bristolchoral.bsky.social & British Sinfonietta Hilary Campbell Susanna Fairbairn @petedavtenor.bsky.social & Frederick Long last night. What a piece! Also the backstage snacks were next level...🎵

Susanna Fairbairn and Joanna Harries @joannaharries.bsky.social perform Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, with @bristolchoral.bsky.social,this evening, at the @bristolbeacon.bsky.social, conducted by Hillary Campbell.

www.bristolchoral.co.uk/events

Looking forward to singing with this fabulous cast and the BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers in December! Reallylooking forward to being back with Opera Rara 😍

We'll also be recording it in November, including music from the rare Paris version, for all the Puccini fans (who isn't?) 📀

Looking forward to Beethoven "Missa Solemnis" tomorrow in Bristol with Bristol Choral Society & British Sinfonietta 🎵

Congratulations to CRD Records for a brilliant event yesterday with Bang & Olufsen celebrating 50 years🎂

And particularly amazing to hear a taster of "Letters from Scandinavia" in full 7.1 sound in the fancy 'sensorium'!

Plus beautiful performance of Maya Magub duetting with herself in Telemann!🎻